Fu (kana)
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| transliteration | fu | ||
| hiragana origin | 不 | ||
| katakana origin | 不 | ||
ふ, in hiragana, or フ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in four strokes, while the katakana in one. It represents the phoneme /hu͍/, although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is ⓘ, which is why it is romanized fu in Hepburn romanization instead of hu. Written with a dakuten (ぶ, ブ), they both represent a "bu" sound, and written with handakuten (ぷ, プ) they both represent a pu sound.
The katakana フ is frequently combined with other vowels to represent sounds in foreign words. For example, the word "file" is written in Japanese as ファイル (fairu), with ファ representing a non-native sound, fa.
In the Ainu language the katakana with a handakuten プ can be written as a small ㇷ゚ to represent a final p sound. In the Sakhalin dialect, フ without a handakuten can be written as small ㇷ to represent a final h sound after an u sound (ウㇷ uh).
| Forms | Rōmaji | Hiragana | Katakana |
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| Normal f- (は行 ha-gyō) |
Fu | ふ | フ |
| Fuu Fū |
ふう |
フウ フー | |
| Addition dakuten b- (ば行 ba-gyō) |
Bu | ぶ | ブ |
| Buu Bū |
ぶう |
ブウ ブー | |
| Addition handakuten p- (ぱ行 pa-gyō) |
Pu | ぷ | プ |
| Puu Pū |
ぷう |
プウ プー |
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